Website Redesign to go live 5th June

Fallen London
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I gave the new site a short try and must say I’m delighted with the looks. Those huge new location banners are great! Can’t say too much about functionality now, that will have to wait.

Minor nitpick: the font currently used in the beta looks rather unimpressive and generic. Any plans to change it until the site goes live?

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ROUNDED CORNERs!? BlAsPhEmY!

otherwise it looks lovely.

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Having used the beta site only briefly, it seems like maybe 10% of all transitions end up with a blank story page as reported by lukeskylicker and silurica. It seems like manually refreshing the page is the only way to get the content to reappear. The frequency with which this occurs makes it disruptive enough that I think for now I’d prefer to use the original site.

The new aesthetics are quite nice though, overall I like the redesign from a visual perspective.

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When drawing/discarding cards (on Desktop version), the rest of the frame &quotflickers&quot for a second - the entire story tab below the cards jumps up a few pixels and then down again. It’s very disorienting when quickly drawing and discarding a few cards.

edited by dov on 5/28/2018

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Time to give it a go for a bit.

I agree with dov about the card issue. Just add a static height to the .deck-info and it’s all right. :)

But those 40x40 pics vs the old 40x52 are going to take some time to get used to. Have a feeling something is left out of the context.

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I slightly dislike how there’s not much clear distinction or separation between storylet text and the options below it, as though the content were merely the first option in the list.

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Agreeing with the sentiment that there’s a lot of white space on desktop; everything feels very big. I’ll probably get used to it. The map icons look blurry for some reason, which is pretty unpleasant. The map itself and the new header art is lovely, though.

Bug of some kind: The beta site seems to be correctly synced, except for the amount of Fate I have. It’s correct on the old site, but too low on the new site. What gives?

Possessions should definitely be reordered in conversion order, and alphabetically in Curiosities (though I do like useable items in front in that one). Social qualities no longer expand to show names, as SingingFlame said. I love that qualities are now sorted alphabetically, but there seem to be a couple sorting mistakes:

  • Acquainted With shows up in between some of the Acquaintances, should be below them.[/li][li]Favours for Society, Great Game, and Urchins are sorting below their respective Renown qualities, when they should be sorted above. Edit: Actually, this might be because I have more favours than renown with these factions. That’s still weird, though; shouldn’t they sort consistently either way?[/li][li]A Fine Piece in the Game sorts at the top of Accomplishments, which would be correct if it wasn’t prefixed with &quotThe Great Game&quot. Maybe snip that prefix off since it doesn’t really add any information that isn’t already apparent?[/li][li]Social qualities sort all over the place, ignoring their prefixes (Chess, Dinner, etc), but they really should all be together. The list isn’t improved by having several different Chess qualities sprinkled throughout. (Request: could we maybe have a separate category for social qualities?)

Some nitpicky thoughts about how qualities are sorted:

  • I kind of wish Profession and Addressed As were in the same category, either Circumstance or Major Lateral, as they seem like the same theme.[/li][li]Favouring The Cheery Man/Last Constable shows up in Circumstance, while Favouring the Blind Pianist/Sallow Spirifer shows up in Stories. They should probably be in the same category.[/li][li]Why isn’t Route: The Cave of the Nadir under Routes? I guess because it’s not a proper location on the map, but it seems strange to have something called Route in a different category.[/li][li]Why is the Starving Poet an acquaintance at all? That should really get re-titled and moved to Stories.

edited by Scatterspark on 5/29/2018
edited by Scatterspark on 5/29/2018

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Α question: can you change outfits from the front page? Having to click 4 times to play a specific card gets tiring fast.

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So, I don’t mean to take away from all the hard work that’s obviously gone into this, but is there no chance for something like an old.fallenlondon.com if we have a strong preference for the current site?

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[quote=Absintheuse][color=#cc0099]Anyone wishing to try out the new site early can do so at beta.fallenlondon.com, which is now open to all.

We’re intending to keep the beta site open right up to its full launch in order to test it on our servers. If for any reason you run into any issues, please send them directly to: fallenlondonredesign@failbettergames.com[/color][/quote]

Awesome! Thanks for letting us know.

J-

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After playing the beta for a while now (Opera on a Windows 10 notebook) I can say that I’m not experiencing any of the issues some people have reported - no pages blanking out, no flickering. Everything works fine. It doesn’t display my Fate, though, like another user said, but I’m not sure whether it’s supposed to at this time.

I still like the style a lot, except that I’d wish for another font (and bigger font size). Making the top storylet a little bit more distinct from the options below it surely wouldn’t hurt. Same goes for options that cost more than one action, they should maybe stand out a bit more.

Splitting the old Myself tab into one for qualities and one for items is a very good idea. I’m not sure I like the new Profile pages though. They’ll take some getting used to.

Something no one has apparently noticed so far: the new &quotaccount settings&quot page is missing a &quotReturn to the Game&quot button, which is rather impractical. The only way to leave that page currently is logging out.

Something I’d like to suggest is reorganizing the Fate tab as it’s a bit of a mess currently. I’m afraid it’s rather daunting for a new player trying to figure out what’s what. I’d suggest that after the Candle- and Deck-refreshers and other mechanical stuff, there should be a header &quotFate-locked Stories&quot for all the non-Exceptional ones, maybe with the most recent one on top. After those, another header like &quotExplore our former Exceptional Stories!&quot and then all the ES sorted, again with the most recent one on top.

It would also be great if they were given some kind of markers displaying which ES make up a Season, or maybe even each Season’s name as a small header, with the three stories grouped together and a mention of the bonus story. Since the number of ES is constantly increasing (and hopefully will keep doing so for a long time!), I think it’s really important to keep them in some kind of order.
(Of course, you could just put in a link here instead… :P)
edited by phryne on 5/31/2018

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LOve the new site in terms of design, but it blanks out a lot. Sometimes I play a card and its still there. Other times, to do a thing I have to go to my mobile where I am still logged at the old site. I do not dare play the ES on the new site, since it keeps getting stuck. Oh, and ‘The Music of the people’ in her Majesty’s Court does not work - cannot exchange favors for Inspired, it just takes you back.

As for feedback, I would also like to have the story separate from the actions option. It is a bit confusing when everything is lumped together.

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One thing I kind of miss in terms of the redesign is being able to save the little “Tell me another thing!” snippets to your journal - the option is present in the old site, but not in the new.